Spanning a creek and formidable travel-proof canyon, the Bixby Creek Bridge complements and counters the majestic beauty of California's spectacular coastline just north of Big Sur, 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco. As an integral part of this stretch of landscape, the bridge has been featured in numerous television shows and movies, and is seen on travel posters around the world.

PERFECT SURFACE SOLID COPPER + CONDUCTORS (PSC +): Perfect Surface Copper + has an astonishingly smooth and pure surface. Patented metal processing technology protects the surface of the wire at every stage of drawing and fabrication. When high-purity, low-oxide copper is kept as smooth, pure, and smooth as possible, it becomes a marvelously low-distortion PSC + conductor. PSC + is manufactured by applying the same exceptional technology to ultrapure copper. The resulting sound quality is even more focused and simply less obtrusive. For more than 30 years AudioQuest has pioneered the use of higher metals; however, even we were surprised by the huge leap in performance that was made possible with Perfect Surface Technology. PSC + simply outperforms all previously available copper metals at any price. All Big Sur drivers are solid. The electrical and magnetic interaction between the strands of a conventional cable is the biggest source of distortion, often causing a somewhat dirty and harsh sound. Solid conductors are critical to achieving a very clean Big Sur sound.

FOAMED POLYETHYLENE INSULATION: Any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. Wire insulation and circuit materials absorb energy (loss). Some of this energy is stored and then released as distortion. Big Sur uses air-filled foamed polyethylene insulation on both conductors because air absorbs almost no energy and polyethylene is low loss and has a benign distortion profile. Thanks to all the air in Foamed-PE, it causes much less of the blurring effect common to other materials.

METALLIZER NOISE DISPERSION SYSTEM (NDS): 100% shield coverage is easy. Preventing captured RF interference from modulating the equipment ground reference requires AQ's Noise Dissipation System. The Noise Dissipation System prevents a significant amount of RFI from reaching the equipment ground plane.

DOUBLE BALANCED ASYMMETRIC GEOMETRY: Designed for single ended applications, Double Balanced Asymmetric Geometry offers a relatively lower impedance on the ground for a richer and more dynamic experience. While many single-ended cable designs use a single path for both ground and shield, double-balanced designs separate the two for cleaner and quieter performance.

COLD-SOLDERED AND GOLD-PLATED PURE "PURPLE-COPPER" RCA PLUGS: This plug design allows for a solder-free connection, which is a common source of distortion. Because ground bushings are stamped rather than machined, the metal can be chosen for low distortion rather than machined. Purple copper offers a cleaner, clearer sound than nickel-plated or OFHC metals commonly found in plugs from competing manufacturers.